There are male as well as female gossips.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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